Cadaver Dogs

Hosted ByDavid B. Jacobs, Rob Piserchia, and Devin Shepherd

(Explicit) What’s so scary about scary movies? Three filmmaker friends dissect horror films to uncover their deeper meanings and cultural influences. We’ll analyze and review your favorite frights: from classic monsters to newer chills; popcorn blockbusters to indie darlings; B-movie slashers to paranormal haunts; and grindhouse gore to psychological thrillers. The Cadaver Dogs will sniff out the real reasons why you love these flicks that gave you nightmares as a kid.

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AUDITION / FRANKENHOOKER: The Perfect Woman

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Want a date? But with whom? What are the ideals and standards of perfection that men hold women to in modern society? The Cadaver Dogs are pulling back the curtains on the unrealistic expectations we hold in relationships, and the destructive – somet…

Next Week: The Perfect Woman

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Announcing next week’s films: 
AUDITION (1999, dir. Takashi Miike)
FRANKENHOOKER (1990, dir. Frank Henenlotter)
 
 
What’s your ideal of the perfect woman? How bout one that cuts out your tongue? Or one that isn’t even really alive but a reanimated c…

Minisode: Top Horror Films of 2021

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Even with all the release push back, this year’s produced some pretty incredible horror films. We’ve seen another resurgence of sequels and remakes of classics like Halloween, Candyman, Wrong Turn, Escape Room, The Quiet Place, Don’t Breathe, The Pur…

SAINT MAUD / HOUR OF THE WOLF: Good Damage

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Praise films and silence the voice(s) speaking inside your head for the very first Cadaver Dogs episode of the New Year!  Devin, David and Rob are getting spiritual with last year’s SAINT MAUD, the first feature by promising new filmmaker Rose Glass….

Next Week: Good Damage

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Announcing next week’s films: 
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SAINT MAUD (2019, dir. Rose Glass)
HOUR OF THE WOLF (1968, dir. Ingmar Bergman)
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Minisode: Best Horrific Performances w/ Destination 180°

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As filmmakers themselves, the Cadaver Dogs tend to get quite wrapped up in awards season, and although the Critics Choice Awards have been postponed due to COVID (uh-oh) and the Golden Globes will no longer be on the air, we are nonetheless in countd…

Minisode: Creepiest Kids w/ Superhost’s Brandon Christensen

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“They’re he-e-e-e-ere!!” Why is it that every possible line is a lot scarier when uttered by a child? There’s no one on this planet who was not a kid at some point, and most kiddos are perfectly innocent bundles of joy. And yet… Rob and David team up…

AMERICAN PSYCHO / BETTER WATCH OUT: X-Mas Psycho Special!

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Jingle Bells! Twilight smells! Brundle-Fly laid an egg! Patrick Bateman killed his date, and Luke Lerner got away!
’Tis the season, and whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, or none of the above, the Cadaver Dogs are here for this final episode …

Next Week: X-Mas Psycho Special!

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Announcing next week’s films: 
BETTER WATCH OUT (2017, dir. Zack Kahn)
AMERICAN PSYCHO (2000, dir. Mary Harron)
 
 
It’s the Cadaver Dogs’s first Holiday Special! And what better way to celebrate than with blood, gore, and a little psychosis. Next we…

THE INVISIBLE MAN / THE TINGLER: Mad Scientists

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Get your test tubes, beakers, and radioactive chemicals ready, because this week we’re talking about ‘30s and ‘50s science-fiction! Einstein had only just published his theory of relativity, the atom was in the process of being split, and outer space…

Next Week: Mad Scientists

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Announcing next week’s films: 
THE TINGLER (1959, dir. William Castle)
THE INVISIBLE MAN (1933, dir. James Whale)
 
 
The mad scientist trope has been done again and again over horror history. (Starting, of course, with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein bu…

STAY ALIVE / BRAINSCAN: Video Game Violence

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Plug in your virtual headset and dust off the NES for some old school Clocktower horror hounds as you join Cadaver Dogs Devin, David and Rob in this episode, Video Game Violence as we strap down some old school tech for dissection.
First up, it’s 199…

Next Week: Video Game Violence

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Announcing next week’s films: 
BRAINSCAN (1994, dir. John Flynn)
STAY ALIVE (2006, dir. William Brent Bell)
 
 
Violence in video games has caused a moral panic throughout the decades – from Columbine to President Trump. Seems fitting that there were…

IT FOLLOWS / TEETH: Sex is Sin

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The famous horror trope goes like this: you have sex you die (thank you Randy Meeks). But sometimes sex isn’t your choice, and the uncontrollable fear that you experience after the trauma will haunt you for the rest of your life… how doe final girls …

Next Week: Sex is Sin

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Announcing next week’s films: 
TEETH (2007, dir. Mitchell Lichtenstein)
IT FOLLOWS (2014, dir. David Robert Mitchell)
 
 
We all know the trope. You have sex, you die. But in the new millennium, society had an updated perspective on sex and sexuality…

Minisode: Haunted Houses w/ Henry Chaisson of Antlers

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Did you hear that? Oh, it’s just the ghosts of our past traumas. Henry Chaisson (Antlers, Servant) joins Devin and David on our countdown of the top 3 haunted houses in horror films. We go deep into what defines the genre and question why Henry has c…

NEW NIGHTMARE / IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS: Fear Itself

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What’s so scary about scary movies? In this special Halloween treat, the Dogs look to finally answer that tricky question, by turning to the ultimate masters of fear: John Carpenter and Wes Craven.
 
First, the latest novel from a prolific horror wri…

Review: Halloween Kills

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NO SPOILERS!
Halloween Kills… and kills… and kills… 
David and Devin react to the latest installment of the rebooted reboot of Halloween. Featuring a special surprise guest… We also cover which film in the franchise is our favorite (counting …

Next Week: Fear Itself

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Announcing next week’s films: 
WES CRAVEN’s NEW NIGHTMARE (1994, dir. Wes Craven)
IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS (1994, dir. John Carpenter)
 
 
As Billy Loomis in Scream said, “Don’t you blame the movies. Movies don’t create psychos. Movies make psychos mo…

Minisode: Scariest Dolls w/ What A Scream

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Children’s plaything turned into childhood trauma. David and Devin are joined by guest star Ygraine, host of the What A Scream podcast, to countdown their top 3 terrifying dolls! We also discuss who would win in a fight: Annabelle, Chucky or Tiffany?…